Temporary gangster

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Movie
German title Temporary gangster
Original title Tower Heist
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Brett Ratner
script Ted Griffin ,
Jeff Nathanson ,
Adam Cooper ,
Bill Collage
production Brian Grazer ,
Eddie Murphy ,
Kim Roth
music Christophe Beck
camera Dante Spinotti
cut Mark Helfrich
occupation

Aushilfsgangster (original title: Tower Heist ) is an American action comedy by director Brett Ratner from 2011 , which was released in German cinemas on November 3, 2011. It stars Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy .

action

Josh Kovacs is the manager of a luxury apartment building in New York City . One day he suspects a kidnapping of the wealthy stock market mogul and penthouse resident Arthur Shaw, which turns out to be an escape from arrest by the FBI . Shaw had apparently recently built his empire on a pyramid scheme that brought him a comfortable life but financially ruined investors. Kovacs, who was on close terms with Shaw, had also invested in him: the entire pension fund of the Tower employees.

When confronted, Kovacs is clearly condescendingly rejected by Shaw and then raised by FBI agent Claire Denham. After the long-time porter Lester tries to throw himself in front of a subway train out of desperation about the impending poverty by losing all his savings, but is saved, Kovacs storms the penthouse together with two employees, where Shaw is under FBI guard judicially ordered house arrest. With Shaw still showing no sympathy or shame, Kovacs angrily smashes all the windows of a Ferrari 250 GT Lusso that is on display in his penthouse apartment. This allegedly once belonged to Steve McQueen and was "sacred" to him. All three then lose their jobs.

When Josh realizes that Shaw still has a secret fortune, he realizes that it must be stored in a hidden safe in his penthouse. He decides to break in there with the two people who were also fired and to use the money to compensate the employees. He persuades his childhood friend Slide and the former tower resident and heavily indebted stockbroker Mr. Fitzhugh to support them, but Slide is only concerned with his own benefit.

So it happens that Slide starts the coup on its own and the project gets completely out of hand. When the safe turns out to be there but empty, a fight ensues between Josh and Slide, in which a shot is released in the scuffle, which punches a hole in the hood of the still damaged Ferrari. Here, the secret of the car is revealed: It is made of pure gold and thus represents the lost capital. Now it is necessary to get the car out of the penthouse inconspicuously before Shaw and his guards return from a court date fictitious as a distraction and find their way through the Thanksgiving Parade passing in front of the Tower.

The auxiliary gangsters lower the car on a steel cable to another floor, then take it away in the elevator and make the car disappear during a bluff executed by Lester. There was also a notebook in the car. It contains details of Shaw's assets that convict him and put him in jail. Josh leaves the book to the FBI and in return the group gets away with it. The exception is Josh, who is sentenced to two years in prison for stealing a car.

At the end, each of the employees receives a part of the car made of pure gold by parcel service.

Reviews

While the ratings from American and British critics were mixed, temporary gangsters in German-speaking countries were received rather negatively. The majority of them criticized massive logic errors in the film plot.

“In the financial crisis comedy Temporary Gangster , the screenwriters Ted Griffin and Jeff Nathanson didn't waste a second thinking about the sense or nonsense of the plan to enter the penthouse of a luxurious New York skyscraper. That's why director Brett Ratner ( Rush Hour , Family Man ) should have worked twice to get the audience interested in things other than the final coup. Nevertheless, its staging is neither elegant, nor is the film particularly funny. So you sit in the cinema, shaking your head, wondering what they are actually doing on the screen, although in view of the well-known cast you are surprisingly seldom torn from your gloomy thoughts by a successful gag. "

- movie starts

“Tower Heist is average entertainment. Many opportunities for a successful laugh go unused, and the oh-so-difficult job then runs a little too easily. Only when a few things go wrong towards the end does the pace and even the tension pick up, which also brings more laughs. Unfortunately that is far too late, and Ratner only continues where he left off before his creative break: on average. "

- outnow.ch

"Prominent, but not very original and also too listlessly prepared comedy that lacks bite in its criticism of financial market practices."

- Lexicon of international film

Gross profit

Temporary gangster grossed 25.1 million US dollars on the premiere weekend in the USA . Total box office revenues were $ 78 million in the US and Canada, and $ 75 million in the rest of the world.

useful information

  • Matthew Broderick was already dealing with a Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California SWB from 1958 to 1962 in Ferris makes blue . There it is, however, a convertible - but here a replica was used in all scenes. The model for the original is a Ferrari 250 GT Lusso from 1962 to 1964. Steve McQueen actually owned a Ferrari 250 GT Lusso, which was brown.
  • The golden Ferrari would be far too heavy to be safely roped down on a cable that is only designed to secure a window cleaner gondola. Likewise, it could not be moved in this form by four men or even placed on an elevator car.
  • The individual parts of the engine, rims and steering wheel shown at the end could not be lifted so easily by the actors because of their weight: the rim alone, which normally weighs at least 10 kg in steel, would be three times as much in gold. Besides, the share, measured in terms of gold value (a rim against a very delicate steering wheel) would be rather unfairly distributed among the employees.
  • The building, simply called "Tower", is actually New York's Trump International Hotel and Tower on Columbus Circle in New York City.
  • During the promotion for the film, director Brett Ratner attracted attention through homophobic statements. He therefore had to give up his role as producer at the 2012 Academy Awards .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for temporary gangsters . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2011 (PDF; test number: 129 778 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for temporary gangsters . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Aushilfsgangster - criticism at filmstarts.de, accessed on December 8, 2011
  4. ↑ Temporary gangster - review at outnow.ch, accessed on December 8, 2011
  5. ↑ Temporary gangsters. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ Box Office: Eddie Murphy desperate about a hangover. In: Spiegel Online . November 7, 2011, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  7. ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=towerheist.htm ( Memento from April 20, 2013 on WebCite )